Engineering

Sunset: Small Engineering Work

The landscape for domain ownership is changing. Due to new mandatory identification requirements (ESIA/Gosuslugi) taking effect on September 1st, I have decided to let the https://smallengineeringwork.ru/ domain expire.

I believe in building systems with minimal friction, and the requirement to link personal government identification to a domain is a boundary I’ve decided not to cross for this specific project.

The content and code aren't necessarily gone forever, but the current home of the project will go dark soon. Thank you to everyone who followed the progress here.

Registrar notification detailing new legal compliance and identity verification demands.

Why I Choose Ghost: Escaping the WordPress Bot Storm

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Today marks a major milestone for the project.

The converter has officially processed 10 gigabytes of data. Even though everything is still under active development, hitting this benchmark feels incredible and proves the architecture is solid. In my upcoming posts, I plan to dive deeper into the technical side—how it works under the hood and how the

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Why I Choose Ghost: Escaping the WordPress Bot Storm

AI: Good Advice

My own password Manager

Today marks a major milestone for the project.